holding
n
1 land held by a tenant 佃户租种的土地.
2 (often pl 常作复数) thing owned, such as land, stocks, shares, etc; personal property 所有物(如土地、 债券、 股份等); 私有财产
She has a 40% holding (ie share) in the company. 她有公司的40%股份.
Around the year 1600 the first horses were brought to the American continent by the Spanish.
大约在1600年的时候,西班牙人把第一批马匹带来美洲大陆。
It took him some time to connect the long rubber pipe to the air supply pipe that ran round the port, but at last it was done and as a result work was able to progress much faster.